Orel, Provincial Executive Committee
Copy to Maloarkhangelsk, District Executive Committee

A writer Ivan Volny has been arrested. Gorky, his comrade, earnestly requests the greatest caution and impartiality in the investigation. Would it be possible to release him under serious supervision? Telegraph your response.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript